Archives for
January 2010

As we pointed out several times in the past, Google has started changing its logo to celebrate different occasions very frequently, sometimes even running two or three different logos for various local versions of the site at the same time. Today, Go...

People traditionally don't flock to the movies around the New Year. So far, the biggest grossing movie on New Year's weekend was Meet the Fockers with $41.7 million. And then, Avatar came and demolished that record with a clean $68.3 million. It's th...

If you reside in Europe, and you have a Palm Pre, you're a member of a very small minority. The device is currently available only in UK, Ireland, Spain and Germany, and lacks some of the functionality of its U.S. counterpart: namely, the ability to ...

Remember Tweexchange? It used to be a Twitter username marketplace, which seemed like a solid (or, better put, inevitable) idea, but it obviously didn't last very long, since the site has been purchased by Blast Applications and now hosts a completel...

Third-party Twitter apps have been in a race to keep up with the onslaught of new Twitter functionality, and today popular BlackBerry app UberTwitter is out with support for a number of the microblogging service’s major new features. UberTwitter Beta...

Seesmic, maker of popular desktop and mobile Twitter clients, has just acquired Ping.fm — a service that lets users post to 50 social networks with a single status update — for an undisclosed sum. The acquisition includes both talent and technology, ...

Having your own iPhone app for your website or blog is becoming an increasingly common way to promote and extend your brand. However, actually creating that application and getting it into the App Store can be a lengthy and expensive process, especia...

Quantcast, a service that lets anyone check stats and audience information about websites, announced this morning that it has raised $27.5 million in fresh funding from Cisco Systems and others. The company, whose competitors include services like Co...

The bizarre pop princess recently got a coolness upgrade when "Poker Face" met Nirvana's "Smells Like Teen Spirit" in one of the best mashups of the recently deceased year. Yes, Lady GaGa has been a little... shall we say, overplayed this year (being...

Put on a few extra pounds this holiday season? Don't expect a welcome mat from BeautifulPeople.com, a dating site who recently made like a high school bully: belittling and booting members for weight gain. According to the Guardian, the site has just...

Sportscaster Len Berman is author of The Greatest Moments in Sports. You can subscribe to Len's daily e-mail highlighting his Top 5 sports stories of the day at ThatsSports.com Professional athletes, like many celebrities, are using social media to c...

Unless you're lucky enough to live in some tropical climate, you might have noticed that much of the world is experiencing a bit of a cold snap. Luckily, there's an app for that. Are you an iPhone owner? Well, do we have an app for you! Pocket Heater...

After successfully helping users unfriend a total of 50,000 Facebook members, Suicide Machine is now being thwarted by the social networking site, which has enforced its own death by guillotine to block the anti-social networking tool at the IP level...

Today, popular movie site Flixster announced that it is buying RottenTomatoes.com from IGN Entertainment for an undisclosed amount. Flixster is a movie rating site that lets you share films you like with friends and also find out what movies they lik...

A deadly shooting occurred in the lobby of a Las Vegas federal courthouse building. According to reports from CNN, the suspected gunman was shot and killed after opening fire on federal personnel. A citizen journalist got it all on tape. YouTube user...

Now that Time Warner and AOL are officially dissolved, those behind the deal – originally valued at $164 billion – are speaking out. This morning, former Time Warner CEO Gerald Levin and AOL co-founder Steve Case discussed the deal on CNBC as we appr...

Mashable's own Ben Parr sat down with Wired's Mark Mcclusky and CNN to preview some of the devices and trends we might be seeing at this week's upcoming Consumer Electronics Show. In the video below, they talk 3D TV, tablets, electronic book readers,...

It's a brand new week, which means it's time for Mashable’s guide to upcoming social media and web events, parties, and conferences. For more upcoming event listings, check out Mashable's Events section. Is your event not on this list? Contact us at ...

As the snow piled up on New Year's Eve, Jersey resident Ravie Rave didn't call a snow plow service to take care of her 65-year-old father's walk -- she tweeted at Newark Mayor Cory Booker. Booker, who has more than a million Twitter followers, is a r...

Maybe Hollywood is wising up a little bit. Five out of six major film studios joined the DECE (Digital Entertainment Content Ecosystem), an association of media and technology companies that are trying to make it easier to play movies you buy digital...

A new report today from The Wall Street Journal seems to confirm what we've been hearing for the last few weeks: The highly anticipated Apple Tablet (potentially named iSlate) will be revealed at the end of this month (reportedly on January 27) and w...

Zach supervises social media strategy at Martin|Williams Advertising in Minneapolis, MN and runs 808 Management, a consultancy for independent artists. Follow him on Twitter at @zackolantern. As we roll in to 2010, the selection of band-friendly soci...

Vitrue's Social Media Index (SMI) assigns brands and products a score based on overall buzz from status updates, videos, photos and blog posts. The company has tallied its results for 2009 and released its top 100 social brands based on index scoring...

As Yahoo continues to refine and redefine itself, it's been offloading and shuttering some services in an effort to slim down (RIP Geocities!). One of the divisions that's been on the auction block since September is Zimbra, an open-source e-mail com...

When Apple filed a patent for tech that would let you control your home computer with your iPhone or iPod touch, that was neat and all, but the functionality already existed in third-party apps. Now a product from a company called L5 will help iPhone...

This post is part of Mashable's Spark of Genius series, which highlights a unique feature of startups. If you would like to have your startup considered for inclusion, please see the details here. The series is made possible by Microsoft BizSpark. Na...

Apparently Michael Ian Black fans are also fruitcake lovers. The TV and movie star only managed to raise $155 in the Regift the Fruitcake charity drive, and now the joke's on you — literally. Tomorrow from 2 to 3 p.m. EST Black will be poking fun at ...

Today's obvious statement: NBC's comic book-inspired Heroes appeals to the geek set. The show was even one of the most influential Twitter topics of 2009. That seems like good news for NBC, but there's a problematic side to reaching that audience as ...

If it seems like everybody and his second cousin is making an eReader device, it's because they pretty much are. Beyond the industry-leading Amazon Kindle and the Sony Reader, a veritable troupe of newcomers are taking the stage to challenge the digi...

The fabled Apple Tablet has been the subject of dozens of rumors. But as its apparent launch draws closer, more credible information seems to be leaking. Earlier today, we learned from the Wall Street Journal that the tablet should launch in March fo...

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